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The Death of Her

Debbie Howells

'This story holds you tight and then drops you like a stone' - Liz Nugent The Death of Her is a haunting psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success The Bones of You.

The Beauty of the End

Debbie Howells

The Beauty of the End is a gripping psychological thriller from Debbie Howells, author of the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club success, The Bones of You.

Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction

Coral Ann Howells

Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing.

Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities

C. Howells

contemporary cANADAN women's FICTION © Coral Ann Howells, 2003. ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Howells, Coral Ann. Contemporary Canadian women's fiction: refiguring identities / by Coral Ann Howells. P. cm.

Part of the Silence

Debbie Howells

The doctors and nurses? Or the mysterious figure who's been watching her, who knows all her secrets, has a hidden agenda--and perhaps their own twisted version of reality. Praise for the novels of Debbie Howells "A terrific new talent.

The Bones of You

Debbie Howells

The Bones of You is a gripping psychological thriller from author Debbie Howells; a story of full of dark secrets, obsession and suspense.

Questionable Shapes

William Dean Howells

In this collection of three longer stories, famed proponent of literary realism William Dean Howells flirts with the supernatural.

William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life

Susan Goodman

This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial ...

Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution

William White Howells

Renowned anthropologist, author, and educator Howells, draws together the latest from all of today's sciences to tell the fascinating story of man's evolution.

Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from ...

William White Howells

Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs Cranial Variation in Man and Skull Shapes and the Map, Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic ...

The Measures of man: methodologies in biological anthropology

William White Howells

This Festschrift in honor of William W. Howells demonstrates the vitality and methodological diversity that existed in the field of biological anthropology in the 1970s.

William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Paul Abeln

Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. This book works against decades of unfavorable comparisons with these literary giants.

Venetian Life

William Dean Howells

"" "Venetian Life flows from the enchantment, the magical improbability of the years Howells spent in that magnificent city dining with the rich, mingling with the humble, and reporting on it all with a uniquely American wit and curiosity.

Howells: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian ...

William Dean Howells

"Ah, how could he?" Colville insinuated, and the young girl colored. "I mean if I were pretty. This everlasting adulation is insulting." "Mr. Morton doesn't flatter," said Mrs. Bowen, thoughtfully, turning the feather screen she held at her face, now ...

Visual Culture

Richard Howells

"The first part of the book is concerned with differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, and includes chapters on iconology, form, art history, ideology, semiotics and hermeneutics.

Using Visual Evidence

Howells, Richard

An abbreviated version of this case study appeared in a special issue of Afterimage devoted to vernacular photography; see Catherine Whalen, 'Finding '' Me''', Afterimage 29, no. 6 (2002): 16–17. I am indebted to Glenda Gilmore, Laura ...

The Myth of the Titanic: Centenary Edition

Richard Howells

Revised and expanded, this new edition of The Myth of the Titanic locates the centenary of the sinking of this most famous 'Unsinkable Ship' within its historical, mythical and intellectual context.

Local Girl Missing

Claire Douglas

Praise for Local Girl Missing 'Compelling and page-turning, wonderfully written and impossible to second guess with a brilliant twist' Debbie Howells, bestselling author of Richard and Judy selection The Bones of You 'The creepy goings on ...